trade secret
15
3.9
- noun
- /treɪd ˈsiːkrɪt/
- Specialized
:
secreto comercial
- He was asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement to keep the firm's trade secrets confidential.
- trademarks and trade secrets
- patents and trade secrets
- protection for trade secrets
So you protect trade secrets through non disclosure agreements.
- So you protect trade secrets through non disclosure agreements.
- Trump's predicate was the theft of trade secrets.
- Well, the main reason is that employers may be concerned that their employee might reveal confidential information, trade secrets, or marketing strategies.
- So the Shanghai, Hawaii Microelectronics Corp infiltrated TSMC and in doing so they were able to illegally access quote reams of trade secrets.
- Certainly within the gilts, you did not want the guy in the next Guild over to know all your trade secrets because that gave you a competitive advantage.
- This cycle has to be broken, and if trade secret stands between US and scrutiny, that has to change.
- And true to his word, TK could have said, look, that's a great trade secret.
- And so people have an access to remote technology, being able to take trade secrets with them and stuff like that.
- Others do other things which we have yet to find out because we don't know their trade secrets.
- U next Intel suing a former employee for theft of confidential files and for allegedly violating trade secrets.
- And without giving all the trade secrets away, some some transport is flagged, some transport isn't flagged.
Examples
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To claim protection for a trade secret, for instance, an effort must be made to prevent its disclosure.
Academic text (1996) -
I'll let you in on a trade secret.
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But everything we have discovered about what Philip Morris does is marked as a trade secret.
Academic text (1995) -
The scoring models are trade secrets, so nobody knows exactly how they evaluate risk.
Blog text (2) -
Well, the main reason is that employers may be concerned that their employee might reveal confidential information, trade secrets, or marketing strategies.
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Misappropriation of trade secrets is a federal offense.
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It is time for Beatrice to learn the family's trade secrets.
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The recipe for the famous chocolate cake is a well-guarded trade secret of the bakery.
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To remain competitive, many companies protect their innovative processes as trade secrets.
How Confidential
- Formal
1
7.4
- Specialized
15
3.9
205
5.3
14
2.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'confidential business information' is directly and compositionally derived from 'trade' (business activity) + 'secret' (information kept hidden); the head noun indicates domain and the modifier specifies the type of secret. This noun–noun composition is cross-linguistically common (e.g., Spanish 'secreto comercial') and follows a standard, predictable pattern that a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer.
Etymology
The noun trade secret comes from business people who kept a special recipe or method hidden so rivals could not copy it. Here trade means 'business' and secret means 'kept private', so the phrase now means a private method a company uses to gain an advantage.